Domain
names are chosen by you, subject to name availability
on the Internet. We can host domain name that you already
own, but there is no discount. See help for
selecting your domain name. One free domain name per account
purchased, however additional domain names(.com/org/net) can be purchased
for $10/year(see pricelist above) and "mapped" (parked) to the same account to provide
a sort of synonym or alias.

See our terms and conditions regarding Domain Name Registration. ALL of our domain names are automatically renewed at the registrar each year unless otherwise notified at least 8 weeks prior to renewal date (to allow for processing time, renewals occur 1 month prior to yearly expiration). Advanced years can be purchased ahead (up to 10 years for most TLDs), but that pre-purchase fee is invoiced at the time of purchase, and no refunds can be made yearly against your hosting plan.

If your domain name is adandoned or your account is unpaid (hosting or labor) or you explicitly do not want your domain name renewed, the domain name becomes the property of Sherwood Hosting LLC and may be re-used for whatever purpose we choose, including but not limited to, sold at auction, sold to a competitor, held for investment, used as a staging/testing site for web development.

Expired Domain Names are expensive to retrieve (minimum $250 up to thousands of dollars). Treat them carefully, and keep your account payments current with Sherwood Hosting.

Email
forwarding allows you to use an email address
with your own domain name (selected by you and registered
by us) and have it forwarded to a mailbox that you have
hosted somewhere
else
(for instance:
your
connectivity ISP provider may give you a mailbox that has
their domain name as a part of it--your new domain name
email address would remain the same if
you need to change ISP providers; or you could have your
domain
name email forwarded to your work email address)

An
Email POP mailbox is a full-featured mailbox which
collects incoming email until you access it with your mail
reader (such as Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora).
A POP email account has a mail server, username,
and password associated with it. You can access a POP email
box via various web reader sites, such as mail2web.com,
or via your Cpanel "webmail" facility.

One
web page is offered, with 1 image. You supply
the text and image. Edits after the initial approval are
at web design rates, 1/4 hour labor rate minimum.

You
can have as many pages as you like with Plan D,
limited only by disk space in your account. You can design and maintain
the pages in your site and upload them via your FTP account (see #7 below). SherwoodWeb is available to assist as much or as little as you request for design (contact us for our hourly fees).
We also offer a web site design tool (browser-based; nothing to install) called SiteZen for an add-on fee of $10/year. See example at bottom of home page.

FTP (file
transfer protocol) is the method by which you "publish" (upload)
your web pages (text and images). FTP accounts are necessary
for you (or your web designer) to manage/change your own
web site. Similar to other types of computer accounts, an
FTP account gives you your own username and password. You
use your own application (computer program) to perform the
FTP uploading operations. There are several options for these
applications:

Disk
Space Storage is the quota (maximum limit) for
total storage disk space that your files consume (MB or
KB) that you're allowed for this plan. This quota is upgradeable
for an
extra fee
per
year.
Your web files are stored on Sterling Arts' server. Also
your incoming email is stored here temporarily until you
access (download) it. You need to leave yourself enough
unused disk space storage in addition to your web site
files in order to hold what you might expect is your largest
incoming email attachment.
See explanation of various quotas.

Web
traffic transfer is a quota that limits the amount
of outgoing traffic (text and image files) from your web
site. This would include your web site visitors when they
access various pages and images within your site (but not
links to other sites). Traffic quotas (sometimes called "bandwidth")
are typically not at all a concern unless you are a high-traffic
site, e-commerce site, or have large files (such as video
or audio/MP3 files) that are downloaded often from your
site.

Upgrades allow
you to expand from your basic hosting plan "D".
Each separate item is $15 per year. For instance if you
wanted an extra 1000M of transfer/month and 100M of disk
space, that would total $30 per year in additional fees.
Prorating: If you upgrade in the middle of the year, the prorated per-month
charge is $2 (with a maximum of $15). Example, if your web hosting
billing period is January to December, and you wanted to add 100M of
disk space storage starting November 1, you'd be charged $4 for the
2 months remaining in the year.

Hosted
Features included in Plan D

Web-related
features

Email-related
features

Domain
Registration/Renewal included
for one domain (.com,.net,.org)

CPanel
Control Panel for your convenience

Password
Protection for your account settings

High-Speed
Dual Xeon State-of-the-art Servers, 99.8% uptime

FTP
Account for web page uploading

Server-Side
Includes

Web-Based
File Manager

Secure
SSL

PHP
5.2.3; MySQL 5.0.92

Perl
Version: 5.8.7

Unlimited
MySQL Databases *

Online
Database Management

Private
CGI-Bin

PhpMyAdmin
Access

FrontPage
extensions

OScommerce,
Agoria.cgi Shopping carts

Network
Tools (web-based: ping, dns, tracert)

Password-Protected
Directories (unix-based .htaccess, set up via a user-friendly
control panel)

Connectivity
access accounts (e.g., dial-up modem, DSL, cable-modem)
are not included, but may be provided by other connectivity ISPs.

Domain Descriptions (TLD- Top-Level Domains)

.COM

Short for .commercial. Domain names with the .com extension are by far the most popular, and can be purchased by any individual or business.

.NET

Short for .network, this domain extension was originally designed to be used by technical Web sites. However, domains using this extension can be registered by anyone.

.ORG

.ORG is the Internet home of nonprofit organizations - and of Web sites that are known for providing trusted, valuable information. In addition, businesses and other establishments protect their online identities by registering the .ORG equivalents of the .com, country code or other domain names.

.BIZ

TLD dedicated exclusively to the business community. The .BIZ domain can only be used for a "bona fide business or commercial use".

.NAME

Available to the general public, .name email addresses are listed as firstname@lastname.name or lastname@firstname.name, while Web sites are listed as www.firstname.lastname.name.